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    Re: Has she got a point - should we be supporting England?

    Certainly the manager and some of their players seem like decent blokes but that's where my admiration of the England football team stops.

    As has been said on numerous occasions by many people, it's the media's blanket coverage and obsession with England that sticks in the craw. It's not hard therefore to understand why the vast majority of non-English people in the UK will I suspect not be supporting them under circumstances.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moodybluebird View Post
    Certainly the manager and some of their players seem like decent blokes but that's where my admiration of the England football team stops.

    As has been said on numerous occasions by many people, it's the media's blanket coverage and obsession with England that sticks in the craw. It's not hard therefore to understand why the vast majority of non-English people in the UK will I suspect not be supporting them under circumstances.
    Under ANY circumstances.

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    it's a football match and my team isn't playing so I don't really care who wins

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    My team isnt playing so I'm a neutral(ish). England have some decent players I cannot bring myself to support them and dont see why I should.
    I wouldn't call myself anti-English but will certainly take more pleasure in a Danish victory tonight, or an Italian victory at the weekend, rather than an English win in either.

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    My attitude to this was shaped in 1970 when I was 13 years old. I loved the English team and was miserable when they were eliminated by West Germany. In people like Nobby Stiles and Alan Ball and the Charlton brothers I recognized “my people.” That they technically were English, and had funny accents, meant nothing. I loved everything about them, even that year’s World Cup song, “Back Home.” I still feel this way. If the English are not exactly “my people,” well they’re pretty darn close — in fact, could literally not be closer. I loved Alf Garnett, The Likely Lads, Eric and Ernie, Steptoe and Son, Reg Varney, Benny Hill and Esther Rantzen, all of whom were English. I have no desire to go the Serbia-Bosnia or Turkey-Greece route. Peace brothers. I’ll be watching and waiting and cheering every move.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyscoular View Post
    My attitude to this was shaped in 1970 when I was 13 years old. I loved the English team and was miserable when they were eliminated by West Germany. In people like Nobby Stiles and Alan Ball and the Charlton brothers I recognized “my people.” That they technically were English, and had funny accents, meant nothing. I loved everything about them, even that year’s World Cup song, “Back Home.” I still feel this way. If the English are not exactly “my people,” well they’re pretty darn close — in fact, could literally not be closer. I loved Alf Garnett, The Likely Lads, Eric and Ernie, Steptoe and Son, Reg Varney, Benny Hill and Esther Rantzen, all of whom were English. I have no desire to go the Serbia-Bosnia or Turkey-Greece route. Peace brothers. I’ll be watching and waiting and cheering every move.
    I’m quite fond of Hans Christian Anderson myself.

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    Re: Has she got a point - should we be supporting England?

    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    I’m quite fond of Hans Christian Anderson myself.
    Did he get on in extra time ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by light up the darkness View Post
    Did he get on in extra time ?
    He did but he was pretty Grimm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyscoular View Post
    My attitude to this was shaped in 1970 when I was 13 years old. I loved the English team and was miserable when they were eliminated by West Germany. In people like Nobby Stiles and Alan Ball and the Charlton brothers I recognized “my people.” That they technically were English, and had funny accents, meant nothing. I loved everything about them, even that year’s World Cup song, “Back Home.” I still feel this way. If the English are not exactly “my people,” well they’re pretty darn close — in fact, could literally not be closer. I loved Alf Garnett, The Likely Lads, Eric and Ernie, Steptoe and Son, Reg Varney, Benny Hill and Esther Rantzen, all of whom were English. I have no desire to go the Serbia-Bosnia or Turkey-Greece route. Peace brothers. I’ll be watching and waiting and cheering every move.
    I can't be sure, but I would be pretty surprised if your namesake ever felt the same way!

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    Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
    I can't be sure, but I would be pretty surprised if your namesake ever felt the same way!
    Jesus, could you imagine Scoular’s take on an English love in !!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
    I can't be sure, but I would be pretty surprised if your namesake ever felt the same way!
    Would be terribly ungrateful for a man who spent his entire professional career in England playing for Portsmouth, Newcastle and dear old Bradford Park Avenue to express the sort of hatred towards his paying fans that I see on this board.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyscoular View Post
    Would be terribly ungrateful for a man who spent his entire professional career in England playing for Portsmouth, Newcastle and dear old Bradford Park Avenue to express the sort of hatred towards his paying fans that I see on this board.
    Not met many exiled Jocks then

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    Re: Has she got a point - should we be supporting England?

    Can't support them.
    The endless media hype and biased commentary
    Their awful fans who boo every national anthem and shine lasers into opposition eyes.
    I can understand them booing our anthem or the Scots as that's local rivalry but the Danish one???
    Just shoes what a horrible lot they really are

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    Quote Originally Posted by Llandaff Blue View Post
    Come off it, I've heard opponents anthems booed at Wales games. This pearl clutching is ridiculous, the Danes did it when they played Finland, Italy did it when they played Spain. Hell, I've been at Cardiff games where fans jeer a player who's gone down injured, get off your high horse and stop generalising
    The ones you have mentioned are local rivals like I said.
    I can't remember the last time I heard Wales fans booing an anthem apart from England.
    You look back and tell me when they did?

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    Re: Has she got a point - should we be supporting England?

    Quote Originally Posted by Llandaff Blue View Post
    Come off it, I've heard opponents anthems booed at Wales games. This pearl clutching is ridiculous, the Danes did it when they played Finland, Italy did it when they played Spain. Hell, I've been at Cardiff games where fans jeer a player who's gone down injured, get off your high horse and stop generalising
    Thought you was talking sh#t
    Just looked back at the Denmark v Finland game and there was no booing the finish anthem and neither did the Italians against Spain.
    They are there for you to check.
    Then watch the English fans against the Danes and then tell me they didn't boo.

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